Anthropology and Primary Health Care

by Coreil, Jeannine; Mull, J. Dennis

• ISBN13: 9780813381381
• ISBN10: 081338138X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-11-01
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Overview and Historical Background	p. 1
The Evolution of Anthropology in International Health	p. 3
Acknowledgements	p. 20
Notes	p. 21
References	p. 22
The Primary Health Care Dialectic: History, Rhetoric, and Reality	p. 28
Acknowledgements	p. 43
References	p. 45
Critical Perspectives	p. 49
Is Integration of Traditional and Western Medicine Really Possible?	p. 51
Notes	p. 73
References	p. 74
The Role of Anthropologists in Primary Health Care: Reconciling Professional and Community Interests	p. 79
Notes	p. 92
References	p. 95
Technology and the Social Distribution of Knowledge: Issues for Primary Health Care in Developing Countries	p. 98
Acknowledgements	p. 115
Notes	p. 115
References Cited	p. 117
Extending Primary Health Care into the Community	p. 121
Maori Community Health Workers: a Mixed Reception in New Zealand	p. 123
Acknowledgements	p. 135
References	p. 135
Compulsory Medical Service and Primary Health Care: a Mexican Case Study	p. 137
Acknowledgements	p. 151
Notes	p. 151
References	p. 151
Using Anthropological Techniques in Program Design: Successful Nutrition Education in Indonesia	p. 154
References	p. 168
Ethnomedical Models	p. 171
Public Health and the Domestic Domain: Lessons from Anthropological Research on Diarrheal Diseases	p. 173
Notes	p. 190
References	p. 191
Vaccinations in South Asia: False Expectations and Commanding Metaphors	p. 196
Notes	p. 216
Acknowledgements	p. 216
References	p. 219
Folk Models of Hypertension Among Black Women: Problems in Illness Management	p. 222
Notes	p. 243
Acknowledgements	p. 243
References	p. 248
Issues and Methods in Applied Research	p. 251
Applied Anthropological Research Methods: Diarrhea Studies as an Example	p. 253
References	p. 275
Anthropology, Health Education, and the Evolution of Community Control in Primary Health Care	p. 278
Acknowledgements	p. 298
Notes	p. 298
References	p. 299
The Anthropologist and Primary Health Care	p. 302
Acknowledgements	p. 320
Notes	p. 320
References	p. 321
Contributors	p. 323
Index	p. 325
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